Maelstrom  as a metaphor to describe the kind of 
media surround that constantly keeps us activated 
and mesmerized by change, and so I think he would 
be in love with this decade in terms of giving him a 
constant repertoire of topics to discuss and to 
analyze. But whether from the standpoint of his 
deepest values he would love this time, probably 
not, because certain traditional values he would 
feel are eroding. The emergence, the use of TV 
commercials in the classroom, and the increasing 
commercialization of the academy and of parts of 
traditional learning, and the erasure of open-
minded independence into a corporate clone-think 
increasingly facing the university and knowledge—